ACTIVATE WINDOWS SERVER 2008 R2 IN A VIRTUAL HYPERV ENVIROMENT Author: Adrian Reinhard 08/11/2016 If you export your Server 2008 R2 with disk2vhd or import your Baremetal Backup into Microsoft Hyper-V Manager then you need to activate your Server 2008 with the Virtual Key as shown above instead the Product Key. HyperV, Server 2008 Activation, Hyper-V, Server 2008, Server 2008 R2